Yes i agree it would be nice if it was a one liner :) since its kind of
defeating the purpose of why I like using xpath in the first place.
Merrill, Jason wrote:
OK Martin, you win, that works, thanks. :) But it IS a pain in the ass
to have to use three lines of code to get a single string from an XML
file, don't you think? It could be compacted into one or two lines, but
it would be even messier.
var nodes:Array = XPath.selectNodes(my_xml, "/pathto[1]/xml/text()");
var textnode:XMLNode = XMLNode(nodes[0]);
var text:String = textnode.nodeValue;
Thanks for the help. I hope AS 3 will address some of these issues.
But I think its going to be the same thing most likely.
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com
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Mike Boutin wrote:
even in this case the result is undefined
string = XPath.selectNodes(my_xml, "/pathto[1]/xml").nodeValue;
I've just gotten the libraries, and it is exactly as I expected.
selectNodes returns an Array of XMLNode-objects. Even the notion of
/text() is just to get the node, which has no name, as it is a
textnode
- but it does not mean, that it will return the text. The function
will
still return an array of XMLNode-objects. So in order to actually get
the text, you need to select the corrent index in the array, and then
get the nodeValue from the XMLNode. given:
var nodes:Array = XPath.selectNodes(my_xml, "/pathto[1]/xml/text()");
var textnode:XMLNode = XMLNode(nodes[0]);
var text:String = textnode.nodeValue;
That would be the proper way to do this perfectly and correctly. And
rather OOP and nice too :)
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